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The Search For A Third Culture

Hugh Lawson-Tancred A TERRIBLE BEAUTY: A HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE AND IDEAS THAT SHAPED THE MODERN MIND by Peter Watson Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 125, pp. 847 I s it still a coherent......

The Baker Street Irregulars

David Stafford THE SECRET HISTORY OF SOE: THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS EXECUTIVE, 1940-1945 by W. J. M. Mackenzie St Ermin's Press, BO, pp. 814 0 n the run in occupied Europe, agents......